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disastrous 音標拼音: [dɪz'æstrəs] a. 損失慘重的,悲傷的 損失慘重的,悲傷的 disastrous adj 1: ( of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; " the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; " a calamitous defeat"; " the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; " such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; " it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; " a fateful error" [ synonym: { black}, { calamitous}, { disastrous}, { fatal}, { fateful}] Disastrous \ Dis* as" trous\, a. [ Cf. F. d[' e] sastreux. See { Disaster}.] 1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill- boding. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill- fated; ending in utter failure or ruin; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous termination of an undertaking. [ 1913 Webster] Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances. -- Shak. -- { Dis* as" trous* ly}, adv. -- { Dis* as" trous* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 63 Moby Thesaurus words for " disastrous": appalling, awful, baneful, black, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, convulsive, deadly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, detrimental, devastating, dire, doomful, dreadful, fatal, fateful, fratricidal, grievous, hapless, harmful, harrowing, herky- jerky, horrendous, horrible, horrifying, internecine, jerky, luckless, nihilist, nihilistic, orgasmic, paroxysmal, ravaging, ruining, ruinous, seismic, self- destructive, spasmodic, spastic, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, terrible, tragic, unfortunate, unlucky, upheaving, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, wasteful, wasting, withering, wreckful
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